• DocumentCode
    197283
  • Title

    Effect of seed linewidth on few-moded fiber amplifiers

  • Author

    Daniel, J.M.O. ; Simakov, N. ; Shardlow, P.C. ; Clarkson, W.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Suppression of detrimental modal interference effects within a cladding-pumped multimode thulium fiber amplifier is achieved using variable bandwidth seed source. The amplifier produced pulse energies of 1.1mJ and peak powers over 20kW at 1956nm.
  • Keywords
    interference suppression; laser modes; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; optical pumping; power amplifiers; spectral line breadth; thulium; cladding-pumped multimode thulium fiber amplifier; detrimental modal interference effects; energy 1.1 mJ; few-moded fiber amplifiers; seed linewidth; variable bandwidth seed source; wavelength 1956 nm; Bandwidth; Fiber lasers; Interference; Laser beams; Laser stability; Optical fiber amplifiers; Power lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989977
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=197283